Synthetic Data Generation papers, 2023–2026
Data augmentation at scale
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 277 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Synthetic Data Generation went from 72 papers in 2023 to 96 in 2026, roughly 1.3x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Synthetic Data Generation work: 114 papers from 2023 to 2026, 41% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 6 in 2023 to 20 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Data-Centric AI, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Weak Supervision, is up 1.3x versus 1.3x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 45 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 72 |
| 2024 | 18 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 41 |
| 2025 | 27 | 18 | 9 | 14 | 68 |
| 2026 | 24 | 26 | 21 | 25 | 96 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026Breaking the Quality–Privacy Tradeoff in Tabular Data Generation via In-Context Learning
- ICML 2026Active Tabular Augmentation via Policy-Guided Diffusion Inpainting
- ICLR 2026Critic–Adviser–Reviser Cyclic Refinement: Towards High-Quality EMR Corpus Generation with LLMs
- CVPR 2026Beyond Objects Contextual Synthetic Data Generation for Fine-Grained Classification
- NeurIPS 2025Achilles' Heel of Mamba: Essential difficulties of the Mamba architecture demonstrated by synthetic data
- ICML 2025Synthetic Text Generation for Training Large Language Models via Gradient Matching
- ICLR 2025Scaling Instruction-tuned LLMs to Million-token Contexts via Hierarchical Synthetic Data Generation
- CVPR 2025Synthetic Visual Genome
- NeurIPS 2024DECO-Bench: Unified Benchmark for Decoupled Task-Agnostic Synthetic Data Release
- ICML 2024CaRiNG: Learning Temporal Causal Representation under Non-Invertible Generation Process
- ICLR 2024A Linear Algebraic Framework for Counterfactual Generation
- CVPR 2024Learning from Synthetic Human Group Activities
- NeurIPS 2023[Re] $\mathcal{G}$-Mixup: Graph Data Augmentation for Graph Classification
- ICML 2023Data Feedback Loops: Model-driven Amplification of Dataset Biases
- ICLR 2023Synthetic Data Generation of Many-to-Many Datasets via Random Graph Generation
- CVPR 2023Fake It Till You Make It: Learning Transferable Representations From Synthetic ImageNet Clones
- NeurIPS 2026Learning with Synthetic Data via SGD in High-Dimensional Linear Regression
- ICML 2026Counterfactual Residual Data Augmentation for Regression
- ICLR 2026Making, Not Taking, the Best of N
- CVPR 2026Order Matters 3D Shape Generation from Sequential VR Sketches
All Synthetic Data Generation papers
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- ICML 2026$\texttt{FHAIM}$: Fully Homomorphic AIM for Private Tabular Synthetic Data Generation
- ICML 2026Active Tabular Augmentation via Policy-Guided Diffusion Inpainting
- ICML 2026AugMask: Training Diffusion Models on Incomplete Tabular Data via Stochastic Augmentation and Masking
- ICML 2026Configurable Reward Model for Balanced Safety Alignment
- ICML 2026Counterfactual Residual Data Augmentation for Regression
- ICML 2026Data Augmentation of Contrastive Learning is Estimating Positive-incentive Noise
- ICML 2026Efficient Synthetic Network Generation via Latent Embedding Reconstruction
- ICML 2026EPSVec: Efficient and Private Synthetic Data Generation via Dataset Vectors
- ICML 2026FedPDG: Prediction Discrepancy–Guided Data Generation for Heterogeneous Federated Learning
- ICML 2026Hierarchical Abstract Tree for Cross-Document Retrieval Augmented Generation
- ICML 2026Hybrid-Gym: Training Coding Agents to Generalize Across Tasks
- ICML 2026Identifying Learnwares via Reduced Neural Conditional Mean Embedding
- ICML 2026Is Generation Required for Data-Efficient Perception?
- ICML 2026Local Redundancy: An Information-Theoretic Measure of Plasticity from Synthetic Memorization
- ICML 2026OCNR: Stabilizing Self-Play by Mitigating Iteration-Collapse With One-Class Novelty Rewards
- ICML 2026Optimal Domain-Aware Privacy Mechanisms for Synthetic Data Generation
- ICML 2026Rapid Poison: Practical Poisoning Attacks Against the Rapid Response Framework
- ICML 2026Relational In-Context Learning via Synthetic Pre-training with Structural Prior
- ICML 2026ScoreMix: Synthetic Data Generation by Score Composition in Diffusion Models Improves Recognition
- ICML 2026SurvDiff: A Diffusion Model for Generating Synthetic Data in Survival Analysis
- ICML 2026VividCam: Learning Unconventional Camera Motions from Virtual Synthetic Videos
- ICML 2025BAnG: Bidirectional Anchored Generation for Conditional RNA Design
- ICML 2025BOOD: Boundary-based Out-Of-Distribution Data Generation
- ICML 2025Breaking the Barrier of Hard Samples: A Data-Centric Approach to Synthetic Data for Medical Tasks
- ICML 2025Learning-Order Autoregressive Models with Application to Molecular Graph Generation
- ICML 2025Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning with Classifier-Free Diffusion Generation
- ICML 2025SK-VQA: Synthetic Knowledge Generation at Scale for Training Context-Augmented Multimodal LLMs
- ICML 2025Synthetic Face Datasets Generation via Latent Space Exploration from Brownian Identity Diffusion
- ICML 2025Synthetic Text Generation for Training Large Language Models via Gradient Matching
- ICML 2025TabSDS: a Lightweight, Fully Non-Parametric, and Model Free Approach for Generating Synthetic Tabular Data
- ICML 2024CaPS: Collaborative and Private Synthetic Data Generation from Distributed Sources
- ICML 2024CaRiNG: Learning Temporal Causal Representation under Non-Invertible Generation Process
- ICML 2024Compositional Capabilities of Autoregressive Transformers: A Study on Synthetic, Interpretable Tasks
- ICML 2024CuTS: Customizable Tabular Synthetic Data Generation
- ICML 2024Differentially Private Sum-Product Networks
- ICML 2024Leverage Class-Specific Accuracy to Guide Data Generation for Improving Image Classification
- ICML 2024Magicoder: Empowering Code Generation with OSS-Instruct
- ICML 2024MILP-FBGen: LP/MILP Instance Generation with Feasibility/Boundedness
- ICML 2024Sharpness-Aware Data Generation for Zero-shot Quantization
- ICML 2023Adaptively Weighted Data Augmentation Consistency Regularization for Robust Optimization under Concept Shift
- ICML 2023Beam Tree Recursive Cells
- ICML 2023Conformal Prediction with Missing Values
- ICML 2023Data Feedback Loops: Model-driven Amplification of Dataset Biases
- ICML 2023Generating Private Synthetic Data with Genetic Algorithms
- ICML 2023Gradient-Free Structured Pruning with Unlabeled Data
- ICML 2023Improving Graph Generation by Restricting Graph Bandwidth
- ICML 2023OpenFE: Automated Feature Generation with Expert-level Performance
- ICML 2023Scalable Adaptive Computation for Iterative Generation
- ICML 2023Synthetic data for model selection
- ICML 2023Synthetic Data, Real Errors: How (Not) to Publish and Use Synthetic Data
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FAQ
- How many Synthetic Data Generation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 277 in total: 72 in 2023, 41 in 2024, 68 in 2025, 96 in 2026.
- How many Synthetic Data Generation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 24 Synthetic Data Generation papers, versus 27 the year before.
- How many Synthetic Data Generation papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 26 Synthetic Data Generation papers, versus 18 the year before.
- How many Synthetic Data Generation papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 21 Synthetic Data Generation papers, versus 9 the year before.
- How many Synthetic Data Generation papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 25 Synthetic Data Generation papers, versus 14 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Synthetic Data Generation papers?
- NeurIPS, with 114 papers from 2023 to 2026.